Stage Quotes - Page 11

• It was not easy for my mother, being a struggling actress and raising a child. We were these two sort of vagabonds, never knowing where the money was going to come from. She always says she couldn't afford a babysitter, which is why she put me on the stage.

  Christina Applegate

  Mother, Children, Struggle

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it.

  Curtis Armstrong

  Vision, Stage Actors, Actors

  "'80s actor known as Booger still busy in the biz" by Serena Kappes, www.cnn.com. September 10, 2002.

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• The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

  Dan Auerbach

  Keys, Rocks, Black

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• I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking on stage.

  Dan Auerbach

  Love Is, Men, Talking

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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• I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put it onstage right near his mic stand by the pedal board and he pulled it out with his foot, kicked it to the center of the stage, looked me in the eye and stomped it to pieces.

  Patrick Carney

  Kids, Eye, Feet

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• When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage.

  Pauline Collins

  Teacher, Years, Acting

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• The independent route was the best move for me. But I think I've maximized everything I could do independently. I've done everything out the mixtape market. I think getting the big machine behind you is the next stage when you've maximized the independent level.

  2 Chainz

  Moving, Independent, Thinking

  "2 Chainz looks to build on revived career with CD". Interview with Jonathan Landrum, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. August 15, 2012.

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• I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

  Aaron Carter

  Girl, Air, Hands

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• If I'm at home for the weekend - and that is almost never - I tend to get twitchy at about eight o'clock in the evening because my body clock is timed to go on stage. I don't know what to do with myself.

  Jimmy Carr

  Home, Weekend, Eight

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• What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.

  John Cale

  Giving, Use, Texture

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• Paul Bearer was very influential in the early stages of my career. He constantly hounded me and I just think he realized the potential that was there. He convinced me that I was in the right place and doing the right thing.

  John Cena

  Thinking, Careers, Influential

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't stage my own publicity.

  Lauren Conrad

  Publicity, My Own

  "Is Lindsay Lohan homewrecking from rehab?". www.today.com. September 21, 2007.

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• I certainly was performing before my writing was published, because I was performing when I was very young. And the thing is I'm very comfortable on stage, so a large portion of my act did come from ad-libs.

  Ricky Jay

  Writing, Young, Performing

  "So Many Weird Worlds: A Conversation with Ricky Jay" by Cole Louison, www.newyorker.com. May 19, 2011.

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• I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.

  Neko Case

  Nervous, Feels, Fearful

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• I can drink on the job if I want to. I can go on stage with a beer and it's OK. I can say whatever I want. It's a great job to have.

  Rodney Carrington

  Jobs, Beer, Goes On

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• Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.

  Simon Callow

  Weekend, Afternoon, Evening

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• I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.

  Sofia Coppola

  People, Different, Moments

  "I don't like being told what to do", www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2003.

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• I enjoy being on stage with other artists. I have a chance to watch and see people responding to the other artists songs. I get to see how people are affected by the music.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Song, Artist, People

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• It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.

  Warren Cuccurullo

  Thinking, People, Example

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• Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with "Idol," it has got me past so much of that.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Kids, Past, Idols

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Chicago Star Kara DioGuardi". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. September 16, 2011.

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• I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I often wish I were.

  Lydia Davis

  Teaching, Wish, Anecdotes

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• When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.

  Michelle Dockery

  Children, School, Ballet

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But I also know in standup, there's nowhere to hide. You get on stage and you deliver, or you are eviscerated and you are thrown into a pile of bodies at the bottom of a mountain.

  Rob Delaney

  Mountain, Body, Bottom

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• On stage, I'm me. I'm a husband, I'm a dad, I'm a guy, I'm a mess - but I am a cohesive thing that you recognize as one human entity saying these things that he generally believes.

  Rob Delaney

  Husband, Dad, Believe

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• With Twitter, you just want to make people laugh in their meeting; on stage, people have paid for their tickets with their hard-earned money, so I owe them the truth as I experience it.

  Rob Delaney

  People, Laughing, Want

  "Rob Delaney: 'Twitter has rocketed me to a whole new level of standup'". Interview With Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2012.

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